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Dadaist works, such as Duchamp’s ready mades, famously challenge the connection between art and the aesthetic by presenting objects of little or no aesthetic interest, such as urinals, snow shovels, and bicycles, as art. From impressionist paintings to unmade beds exhibited in galleries, this raises enduring questions: Are these objects art simply because an artist declares them so, or because... Read more
Chapter 1. The Journey of Aesthetic Sensibility
Chapter 2. It Is Never About Beauty
Chapter 3. When life imitates art
Chapter 4. From Transcendence to Kitsch: Have We Lost Faith?
Chapter 5. The taste of contemporaneity: is the west kitsch?
Chapter 6. The Collector and The End of Beauty
Chapter 7. The State of Art of Beauty
Biography
Alberto Castelli is Professor of Humanities at Hainan University, China.
